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fat cats. My oh my, this is quite a story, friends, even if you've never traded a share of stock in your life, even if you could care less about what the markets are doing, because in our increasingly online, digitized, and electronically controlled world, this is the first place we've seen a populist uprising against the extreme control that we

have all been subjected to over the last year. It's existed before that, of course, but given the COVID lockdowns, this new Biden era, the authoritarian impulse from social media companies, online providers of all kinds of services, the Democrat Party, the new media, and now as we see the Wall Street barons, that has become too much for people to bear. So what's really happening here? As I speak to you? You have enormous moves in these stocks, billions and billions

of dollars changing hands. And what's so interesting to so many people is that, all of a sudden, it's as though we were all sitting at a poker table and on the one side of the table, you have these hedge funds and they're already very rich. These people make a lot of money, they do very well. But it's never enough money. You see, once you make your first ten million, then you got to make fifty. Once you make fifty, you gotta make a hundred. But when you

amass all that cash, what do you do with it? Well, you have to buy social credibility with it. So who do you donate to? What do you give money to? Well, for one, democrats, left wing causes, climate change, activist groups, right organizations that say they're about harmony and unity, but are about the suppression of free speech. You know, maybe you give some money to the ACLU, you give some

money to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Whatever. That's when you become a super rich fat cat so you can drive around in your Maserati and go between your seven houses. You know, it's never enough either for the wife, the ex wives, the girlfriends, or the mistresses, and I mean all at the same time. So what do they do. Well, as you see, they try to get even bigger leverage going. They go all in to kill American companies or any

company for that matter. As long as there's a profit, as long as they can find a way to manipulate the market to their advantage. When they have as they did here with game Stop, this video game company that is like the Blockbuster video of video games, when they decide that they're going to overshort it to the point where there are more people who have borrowed and then sold the stock then there are actual shares in existence. This is essentially market manipulation, and it means that this

company is toast. It means Game Stop is done. But people realize there's another side to the trade. And these Reddit bros and these Wall Street chat rooms, not of actual Wall Street people, but of just everyday folks said, you know what, we're going to stick it to these hedge funds. And then you know what happened. All of a sudden, as I said at that poker table, you have the Wall Street fatcats on the one side, and

you have just people Robin Hood day traders. Although I think they're gonna get off robin Hood now and we'll get into that, go to other platforms. You got these day traders, and they're right on this one, and all of a sudden, it's like the casino boss has come over and is taking two aces out of the day traders hands and putting it in the hands of the hedge funds. Why because that's the order of things. That's how it's supposed to be. You see, I think we're

all getting very tired of this. This is the most blatantly rigged financial game in the last decade. This is the worst financial rigging that we've seen since. Who got bailed out and who didn't during the financial collapse? Who had to pay a terrible price? You the American people, and who didn't Wall Street people who had spent years fattening themselves up with the reckless speculation on credit to false swaps and mortgage backed securities. But the government came

in and bailed them out. The system came in and bailed them out under the pretense that they were bailing you out. And now there are hedge funds. There are places like Citadel which owns Robin Hood and Melvin Capital, and many many others who are losing billions and billions and billions of dollars. But remember, the money's not being

lit on fire. The money is being transferred from one set of hands to another, and it's by the rules of the game, but it's not okay according to the elites, according to the people who make these decisions, this isn't supposed to happen. You're not supposed to be able to outthink multi billion dollar hedge funds. You listen to this right now, people, And by the way, please let me just as a disclaimer here, be very careful if you're in this game right now, because it is overheated and

people are gonna lose lots of money. So I don't there's the there's the political populist angle to this, and then there's the actual financial realities of this for a lot of people. Please be cautious. Don't don't get into a game that you don't know the rules and you don't know what you're doing. And the way I always tell people this, and this has been told to me by folks with a whole lot more money than me

and more financial know how. You never bet any money in the market, you know, you never place a bet in the market that you wouldn't place a bet, you know, at a racetrack and lose it and be okay, hey, no that's not a big deal. Okay, I lost it. You know, you don't ever take risks that you can't afford to take, very straightforward rule, don't do it, please, you know. I mean, this really is very much right now. These markets are This is straight up gambling that is

going on. It's not based on earnings. It's not based on getting new patents or getting FDA approved. I mean some of it, of course, but I'm talking about game stop at AMC and these things. But this is a revolt against the system and the financial elites that's happening from within this system, and that really terrifies the people in charge because the system is supposed to produce certain outcomes.

They don't tell you that, but that's the truth. Because the people that are enforcing it, the sec the other you know, the government regulators, the federal law enforcement agencies, you name it, the actual platforms like robin hood that are owned by private companies. Facebook is shutting down speech about stock trading under basis robin Hood shut it down saying that it was because of like their ban on

a hate speech or something. I guess if you're a hedge funder and you're losing billions of dollars and you're not going to be able to buy, you know, Muffy and Buffy a new yellow Range Rover for their sixteenth birthdays. Yeah, it's really sad for you, but this is the game, folks, This is how it goes. Like I said, never bet something you can't afford to lose, you don't do it.

And that's true of hedge funds as well. The system is trying to set an example here though, by stepping in and saying it doesn't matter how brazen it is. You don't get to win. You stay home, mask up, shut down your business, and you don't get your government check, not on time. And the government owes you that money because they shut down your business. The government owes you that PPP because they're the reason, stupidly that the economy was the worst it was since nineteen forty six according

the latest figures. Okay, we have the worst economy in you know, going on a hundred years last year of terms of GDP, in terms of GDP growth. Okay, this is it. It was an awful year and they made it so much worse. You stay home, you shut up, you do what you're told or else. Wait, but why where, where's the basis for this and how are we supposed to obey rules and systems when they'll change them the moment.

It doesn't favor the people in charge. When we talk about a populist uprising, what we're saying is that people who do not yet have power see what the people in power are willing to do to keep it. And right now it is the democrats in power. But this is not entirely a democrat phenomenon, although it is largely a democrat status authoritarian phenomenon. But the people with so much want to prevent others from also getting theirs. And

this is why you have for eggs. Example, the former head of the SEC the SEC the Securities in Exchange Commission is the regulatory body, and they can send people to prison, they can bring charges. Right the SEC is a serious organization, has federal law enforcement authority. The former head of the SEC started to compare people who are placing trades on an app and that are winning and making money and it is entirely legal, by the way,

what they're doing. There's no real allegation of illegality out there about any of this, at least not yet. She compares it to the Capitol Hill riot play twenty. It really puts a lot of question about the integrity of the market, right, and it really kind of everybody's scratching their heads over this. What should happen, What is the right thing to do to control this or stop this? Not unlike what we saw in January sixth at the Capitol, right, if you don't have the police in at the right time,

things go a little crazy. And that kind of feels like what's happening with this a much different, much lesser degree. It's financial harm, not personal bodily harm. But but certainly that's the same kind of you know, platform created frenzy that people are operating under. And these are these are very trying times. It's a very important a whole lot of differences. It's a it's an insane comparison. But if we're going to play this out a little bit, they're upset.

The elites are upset because the people that are doing this to the hedge funds, they're winning. The hedge funds are losing the money in this case, and you're supposed

to lose the money. The way the stock market has been set up in recent years, as there's greater democratization of information but also access and trading ability is that people realize, Hold on a second, these hedge funds, they they mass all this capital, they don't hedge hedging means that they're essentially balancing out their bet so that their downside is not that big. So it's supposed to be a risk management strategy, but hedge funds are They're a misnomer.

That's not what they do. They go all in. They will cut a company, they will burn it their ground. I have friends, I know people who work at the biggest hedge funds in the world, and this is what ends up happening. Yeah, sometimes they provide necessary capital and lubrication for the market and whatever, but a lot of the time they're just going in for the kill. But the other side's not allowed to win, don't you see. That's what's the problem here. Everyone's acting like there's some

big problem. What do we do about the markets? The former head of the SEC this is like the stock market equivalent of the former head of the FBI saying, this is like the Capitol Hill riot. What the Winklevoss Twins. You know about the the winkle Vy you know about them, probably because of their connection to Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook they were in the social network the played by one actor, the large blonde haired guy who rode Crew. I rode crew in college. But they also are big bitcoin and

decentralized finance guys. Here's what they said on TV and notice CNBC the financial journal. Financial journals are are every bit as guilty of sucking up to power and being little frauds as political journals are. That's one thing you're seeing here. Here's what they said. Dwinklevoss on TV play twenty two. I think this is a much larger movement. I think it's a systemic issue, and I think that people need to fix it or it's going to get

much much worse. I think this is a much larger issue in the thread of our country and its fragility and what's happening in the inequality, and frankly, the hypocrisy of the political leaders who say you can't open your business and run your business and make a living during the pandemic. We won't pass a stimulus bill in time, and oh, by the way, and now you can't trade.

You know what's the next thing they're going to control and say you can't do and what it really does Wait a minute, Wait a minute, who who is saying all of those things? That sounds like some attempt at whipping up something populous that that's not based in fact. Is there is there one person who is saying all of those things, No, jackass, There are a lot of people who are taking action based upon those things. Robin Hood, The app only allowed selling of a stock yesterday based

on what well they wanted to be. They wanted to help drive the price down on GameStop so that the short sellers would stop getting squeezed. It was bailing out their buddies. Full on. Now this is again it's a privately owned app, but you are led to believe that this is this is a platform for buying things. Right.

Imagine if you went on Amazon and you bought yourself, you know, a tennis racket and they said sorry, we're gonna send you some skis instead, say well, hold on a second, that's not right, that's not what I well, you know, Amazon's a private company. You see now that the left has seized the heights of our institutions and corporations. Now that they have control, they want absolute control. All the old arguments about hold on, there's a greater societal

good here. Hold on, there's there's a culture or freedom and openness and free speech. That's all. That's all discarded by them. They could care less. This is all about naked power and a grab for even more money for people who have plenty of it, and it's playing out in full view of the whole country. Where's the Biden administration on this? Where's Joe Biden? I will say, there are some radicals on the left who just hate rich people, so they are of course jumping in on this one.

But some of what they say on this is true. Some of what they say on this is reality. And even Ted Cruz agreed with AOC yesterday. She was vicious in response to him trying to reach a point of agreement on something. But even Ted Cruz is saying that

this is amazing and wrong. What's going on here. You're supposed to stay home because Fauci says so, have your business shut down, Your bank accounts supposed to go to zero because you don't have the assets to sit there and just keep getting dividends, and the stock price rising and rising. The government's policy is inflating the assets of those who have assets. You're not even allowed to try

to get ahead. You who work for a trucking company, who own a small business, who show up to a company that's been struggling and you've had to shut your doors for a while. You work in a restaurant, you work in a bar. You the American people are being told, shut up, stay home. We'll get you a tiny check

at some point when we feel like it. While all of our buddies are getting uber eats delivered to them, sitting in their giant houses and apartments all across the urban centers of America and getting richer and richer and richer on this market. And you're not supposed to be having a piece of that, a little bit a taste, just to shut you up. You get to make six percent on your money if you're a good boy or girl,

give you a little pat on the head. These hedge fund people, they want to make six hundred percent on their money in a month, in a day. That's what they get to have. You get your six percent. And if you try to stop the hedge funds, they're gonna come for that little six percent from youtub. Maybe they'll even throw you in jail. This is the Buck Sexton Show Podcast. Join the conversation and message buck on Facebook, Instagram or email team Bucket, iHeartMedia dot com if he

may read it on the show. The reason the market is doing what he's doing is people are singing at home getting the checks in the government. Okay. And this fish share is a big concept against just a way of attacking wealthy people. And you know, I think it's inappropriate. We all got to work together and pull together. We all got to work together and pull together. That's Leon Cooperman.

For those who may not know that. If you're work on or near or know a lot of people on Wall Street, you know that guy is you know what he's worth? Three billion or so. This guy's a multi billionaire. Fair share is bleep. You heard what he said, We've got to come together. He's basically telling you it's might I get to sit at home in front of computer screens making millions and millions and millions of dollars of

which I get to keep at least. If you're running a hedge fund, they call it two and twenty two percent management feed, twenty percent of the upside you get. So you make one hundred million dollars on a billion dollar fund, and guess what, You've had a pretty good year. Some people make a whole lot more than that. But he gets to do that. He gets to just watch as everything as the government policy inflates these asset prices, but more and more spending, more and more stimulus, and

he gets richer and richer and richer. You're not allowed to try to flip the table. You stay home, get your government check, and you know, get some takeout food once a week, and shut your mouth. That's what Cooperman and the rest of the elite and the establishment want you to know. The Robin Hood bros Say, not so fast. You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio act or

wherever you get your podcasts. Open the damn schools everywhere, every city, every state, all across America. The data is in, It has been in for months. It is clear, it is unambiguous. Open the schools. Any public school that is still shut down is shut down because of the crappy decisions of selfish or cowardly adults. That's it. There is no good faith, science based argument to keep these schools closed.

All this nonsense that you're hearing from people about how they need new ventilation systems and they need new ppe and we have to test kids three times a day every day. We're gonna keep testing and testing and testing. This is anxiety even lunacy and children are suffering. Children are depressed. Children's brain chemistry is being affected by this. Children are committing suicide over this. Enough is enough, and the lazy asses in the teachers unions need a real

kick in the butt. This is crazy what they're doing to kids across the country. This is wrong, what they're doing to families, adults and parents who can actually do their normal jobs who have to handle now working perhaps working remotelyal though maybe they're essential workers too, but you know, actual essential workers who have to show up. And this is so devastating the fact that we're even having this conversation shows how crazy it's gotten. There's this father in Virginia.

I know this has gone viral, and I almost want to play this. Every day he goes up to a school board meeting and sometimes, and you know, an everyday person, just just somebody, just one of our fellow Americans, stands up at a podium somewhere and you feel it right away, speaks for all of us who are saying speaks for those of us who see things for what they are. And let's sit rip and here's this father of a school school aged child in Virginia who's talking at this

school board meeting. And just the sense of gratification and the sense of a moment of peace that you get after listening to this, because finally someone is saying it. I wanted you to have that. Here you go play eighteen. You should all be fired from your day jobs because if your employers knew that you were more inefficient than the DMV, you would be replacing the heartbeat. I literally just finished a conference call because I'm having a multitask

to be here to address you. Guys. You're a bunch of cowards hiding behind our children as an excuse for keeping schools closed. You think you are some sort of martyrs because of the decisions you're making when the statistics do not lie that the vast majority of the population is not at risk from this virus. The garbage workers who pick up my freaking trash risk their lives every

day more than anyone in this school system. Figure it out, or get off the podium, because you know what they're people like me and a line of other people out there who will gladly take your seat and figure it out. It's not a high bar. Raise the freaking bar. Open the schools. He's yelling, open all the schools. Why why is it that, as I've been saying to you, you have people who are working in drug stores and grocery stores, and mail carriers and truckers and just all kinds of folks.

People working in for utility companies and the cable guys and gals. I mean, you name it. People are still doing their jobs. I go into a TV studio every day. Now, I'm not saying I'm essential, but I just people are still doing their jobs. Teachers can't do their jobs. Oh, it's so scary. It's not so scary. Stop being whimps. If you are of an age which how many teachers in the public school system are over sixty? There are some,

there are very few. If you are of an age where you are at risk, Okay, fine, the datas the data suggests that even though children are very unlikely to spread it to you, which people keep leaving out of this They go, oh, it's not about the kids as much. It's about the teachers of the people around them children, and this gives you, this is always a reminder. Two.

They don't even really understand why. It's probably because a child's immune system is sensitive enough, strong enough, and resilient enough that it deals with the virus very quickly, and therefore there's not the same time frame, the same incubation period where it would be transmissible to other people. That's a theory I'm just saying. But that's that's one theory that I've read, because children don't seem to give this

easily at all to adults. It's not like if you're with you know, if you're with your your sick roommate and you and you're coughing all over the place and you've got COVID, very good chance indoors, long duration, there's going to be a transmission. With children, it just doesn't seem to happen at nearly the same the same rate. But if you're of the age, fine, if you're of the age where you are at risk. They're twenty five year olds waiting in line here in New York to

get vaccines. My seventy four year old father still hasn't been able. He's trying every day. Still hasn't been able to get a vaccine in New York City. Still can't do it. And I've got I've got siblings who are very we're all very plugged in. We're all very Internet savvy, and we're looking all over and trying to find you know, because it keeps saying check back, check back, come back. I mean, this is what the website's telling you all the time. So we're all trying to make this happen.

We're doing everything that we can, and yet here we are, here, we are still can't get that. But twenty five year olds are getting the vaccine because they work for the teachers Union. You see, this is a disgrace, and it's a disgrace that the Biden administration isn't calling this out right away, isn't backing up parents across America. This needs to end. We've run the experiment and the lockdowners have been wrong. They have been wrong. You need to understand that.

They'll never admit it because, oh my god, what a horrible thing to get wrong. Right. If you want to know what the alternative was, I mean Florida. I worry that Florida is going to you know, sync into the ocean if this keeps going. And I'm kidding, I know, I'm not making the I'm making a reference to that guy who thought Guama is going to tip over, right, I mean, Florida is just everybody I know. I'm going down.

They're spending more time there. You know. I love our WFLA, WIO D stations down there, and it already feels like home to me. Florida is putting on a clinic of governance to show the rest of the country what sanity looks like. It's not perfect. They're still COVID. There's still people that are going to die at COVID's there's no question about that. But that's true everywhere. But in Florida there's some sanity, there's some semblance of normalcy and intelligent

approach to this. In New York, they're out of their minds, out of their minds, California crazy. The people in charge are imbeciles, and they've been wrong at every step of this's we're talking about the economy, talking about COVID. Here's Governor Ron Desantist play four. I think we've done a couple of things. One, we focus protection on elderly people rather than trying to shut the entire society down. So at the front end of the pandemic, I barred hospitals

from discharging COVID patients back into nursing homes. That was able to save a lot of lives on the front end and now here on hopefully the back end of the pandemic. Our approach to vaccination is putting years first. We're focusing on our sixty five and up population. We've reported over one point one million seniors that have gotten a shot in the state of Florida. It's almost twenty five percent of our enormous four point five million senior population,

and so we think that that's really important. That's where the most risk is. We also, though understood, we have to have schools open, so every parent in Florida has a right to send their kid to in person instruction, private, charter, public, you name it. And we also say everybody has a right to work. So government, local government can't shut you down. They can't prevent you from earning a living, they can't

prevent businesses from operating. And the result has been for example, in the month of December, our revenue to the state of Florida, and we have very low tax rates. Was up three hundred and thirty million dollars over the estimated revenue. Anybody want to still make the argument that Cromo and Newsome and wid Moro the heroes of the pendemic, Only a moron could make that case. Today, Descantis has taken all the slings and arrows, He's taken all the heat.

I think Rhondes Santist should run for president. I'm just gonna say it right now. Showing results, you know, and if you if you want Trump to run again, well then Desantists, you know, should be his VP, or maybe you know, Trump could be Desantist's VPL. They don't think you'd ever take the number two slot of anything. But he is showing results at a time when there's been

so much pressure. Even the governor of Texas, even the governor of Texas bending the knee a little too much on this stuff, has not been willing to hold the line. Even the governor of Texas very disappointing. And in Colorado, I love my team Buck Coloradins, but here Governor, my god, right, and this is look at all the shutdowns in Denver. Here we are up three hundred and thirty million dollars in revenue in Florida. They're making money. You know why,

because people are allowed to live their lives. Imagine if the Florida effect was allowed to grow and exist around the rest of the country. Imagine if the effect of this was that people would people would look at this as an experiment. They'd say, Wow, Florida's actually done the right thing. We should emulate them. No, Instead, the quizzlings of the corporate media, CNN, the New York Times have

just been just trashing de Santists. Oh, people are dying because I can't tell you how many people come at me on social media, all these idiot libs bit to Santists. Look at this number, look at that number, or like, you know, per capita, California is a little bit better, and I'm a little bit better in terms of mortality on a per capita basis. They've they've ruined people, They've ruined millions of people's lives and businesses, and you think they might be a tiny bit better. Florida is open

for business. How could you even compare these things? New York is fine only realizing we're not going to have a state left unless we stop this nonsense, So they're beginning to edge towards sanity. I've been right. You've been right, those of you who listen to me. If you really thought I was wrong about this, you wouldn't be able to listen to this show for the last year. Right after Why you'd say Buck Buck has lost it. Man, he doesn't get it. We got we gotta trust Fauci,

We gotta trust doctor Fouch. You know, you know Buck's a good guy, and I've listened him for years, but man, he's he's way off on the mask mandates and on lockdowns. These are really saving us. Man, if you believe that, I don't think you'd be able to at least I have to take a break from listening. So, every person who listens to this, you've been voting for what I've been saying by giving me your time, by lending me your ears. And we have been right. They have been wrong.

Take a moment. Let that let that all seep in, Let that all just who wash over you for a second, all those smug blue check mds and excuse me, I have an MDPA, d M A B A B S in everything about all the disease stuff, and like you got to wear seven masks. No, those people were wrong too. By the way, here's one of Biden's top coronavirus advisors, this Austerholme guy who here's his take on Fauci and

double masking play eight. Well, first of all, let me just say that we should have had efforts a long time ago to provide really the highly efficient and effective kinds of respiratory protection, namely these N ninety five mask or respirators, and it's unfortunate that we still need to reserve these for our healthcare workers. And that's a huge challenge in terms of using the face cloth coverings doubling them. Actually, we need to be very careful about that. That may

actually be counterproductive, not helpful. We know, and I'm not an aerobiologist, but we know that in fact they may actually impede the movement of air in and causing it to actually escape in the big crevices between the cloth and your face. That's a bigger problem, not a lesser problem than one. Oh man to two big things here, One of them is you've heard me say it, they're gonna tell you. And ninety five masks, the cloth masks that we have been cling we've been told to cling

to them for our salvation. Your freedom depends upon the cloth mask and it does. Did that work? I don't think I can a band yet for asking questions. Did it work as a policy? Did it work not? Theoretically in a clinical environment of a test? Could it possibly help in some cases? In some instance, I'm saying as a policy of everybody has to do this thing to deal with this pandemic? Has it worked? I'm not even

gonna answer, because you know the answer. If it worked, why are they telling us double mask And now you have a guy who's also supposed to be so esteemed, with all of his credentials, saying double masking might actually be counterproductive. But wait a second, doctor Fouch, he told us that double masking was, of course more more effective. You mean there are still questions about this. I thought

the science was settled, was settled on this. You realize that there's no one out there who would be able to debate someone like me on this and not be made to look like a total jackass. Which is why they're so nasty about all this all the time. That's why they just yell at you, That's why they ban you, that's why they kick you off the social media platforms, they threaten you, they threaten you personally. How dare you cross Saint Fouch? Because you see, it's all a narrative

of control and a narrative of self righteousness. That's really what this has been about. I've been telling you four months, and you know it. They're gonna say double mask, They're gonna say, it's really all about the N ninety five mask. Now, the N ninety five ask scientifically is clearly more effective than a cloth mask. And we've known that all along. But then, why have not they Why have they not been encouraging people to wear those ninety five masks? Now

they're gonna go with, oh, there'd be a shortage. Really, was there a shortage of masks ever during this pandemic? No? Were the hospitals overrun and unable to give care in this country ever during this pandemic? No, But they keep saying it. They hope that you don't pay attention. They hope that you don't listen to shows like this where I don't care how much they yell at be, I don't care how how vicious and vitriolic they get. I've

been right, You've been right, they've been wrong. You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeart Radio app or wherever you get your podcasts. He's already committed the US to re enter the Paris Climate Agreement, and he committed us as well to start undoing the assault on our environment that has occurred over the past four years. And he is now taking additional action to really target the challenge

of climate change. We're still in a pandemic, still undergoing lockdowns in many places across the country, and we're supposed to believe that now is the time to focus on the existential threat of climate change. This is all you need to know to understand the degree of lunacy from the Bind administration that is on display right now. They need to fix what matters, not fix on some not fixate on some absurdity, which is what this existential threat of climate change stuff is. You know it, and I

know it. This is who we're dealing with now, exactly as we expected. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Follow Buck on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Listen to the people in charge now, that's what they want you to do. As Joe Biden says, the patriotic duty. You gotta listen to people making the rules. No joke. But just remember that people like Janet Yellen are out there making important

decisions right now about your future. And and you know, she's the former chair of the Federal Reserve and she has a lot of influence in this Biden administration. She's now the Secretary of the Treasury, which really matters a whole lot. And you are not supposed to pay any attention to the fact that, well, here you go, here's here's White House Press secretary. Sucky to me play fourteen.

You didn't mention. I believe yesterday that the Treasury Secretary is monitoring the situation and she's kind of on top of it. There have been some kind of concerns about her peggy engagements with Citadel and speaking fees that she has received from Citadel. Are there any plans to have her recuse herself from advising the president on the game stop and the whole robin Hood situation. Well, just to be clear, what I said was that we have the

Treasury Secretary is now confirmed. Obviously, we have a broad economic team. The SEC put out a statement yesterday that I referred to. But I don't think I have anything more for you on it other than to say, separate from the GameStop issue. The Secretary of Treasury is one of the world renowned experts on markets, on the economy, which shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. She was paid to give her perspective and advice before she came into office.

So the Treasury Secretary, I want to be very clear, the Treasury Secretary gets paid eight hundred thousand dollars for speeches. Okay, that's a good, good gig if you can get it from the company that owns robin Hood, the trading platform that has decided to bail out the hedge funders by screwing over the individual main street investors. And we should think that she's completely impartial in this whole process. We are to believe that she can be entirely trusted. You know,

it's even more than the money. This revolving door between big financial institution and the Treasury, and big financial institution and the Treasury is a problem. This is a conflict of interest. If this were happening in other realms, you would think, oh my gosh, you can't this person can't to be involved in government decision making. It's going to affect not just their future earning prospects at these different institutions, but also that are going to negatively affect their buddies.

You know, social connection matters a whole heck of a lot of the financial world. You don't think that the head of the CEO of Citadel can get Janet Yellow on the phone. Hey, just just keep it quiet on the whole robin Hood shutdown thing. You know we're gonna we're gonna need your support on this one. Got some very good speeches lined up for you after you know, your two or three years his Treasury secretary. Maybe we'll make it a million dollars a speech. Now. You don't

think you don't think it has an influence? Oh no, sure, okay, even more. Maybe he just calls reper says, hey, Janet, we're buddies, We're friends. Don't don't use any of that sway you have in the government conversation right now to come down on us, because come on, we're pals. You don't think those phone calls are happening. The American people are seeing how this system really works. They're seeing this swamp strikes back. That's what this is. This swamp is

back in charge. There. They're they're flooding Main Street. There are gators going around looking to eat whatever they can. That's what's going on. And the people that promis you that they would protect you are the ones that are actually the alligators, the Democrats. And then that brings me to the absurdity of the focus right now on climate. Do you know on all of the lists of policy ideas and concerns, climate change is barely in the top

twenty most of the time. I mean, you know, it's below the economy and healthcare and immigration, or national security and trade and employment, and you got like climate change is, you know, way way down the list. And Democrats are completely fixated on it right now. Why because this is where they can they can have the most radical impact in the shortest time, and they need to do it before we figure out what's really going on. They need to do it before people wake up and say, hold on,

Biden is a trojan horse for the other side. He's not some moderate who's going to be, you know, helping us out and making sure that Main Street can pay their bills. No, that was all a fraud. The Biden campaign was a fraud. We should all keep that in mind. We're not getting what was promised here, and I mean the American people are not getting what was promised and

they never will. The Democrats run candidates saying one thing with the expectation from the base, from the activists and from the elites that they're all going to get there is they're all going to get something else from this candidate. This is the game they play, this is how they run it. AOC who is I don't find many politicians frightening,

not only personally, but I mean their ideas. I'm not frightened by that many politicians ideas, but AOC is actually she is both so influential and so ignorant at the same time that it is unsettling. It goes beyond the normal stuff we see like Nancy Pelosi. Yeah, she's a Yeah, she's she's cunning, she's ruthless, she's a liar um and she's not in any way an intellectual or bright. But she knows what she's got to do. But she wants

to keep a system as it is. I mean, you know, she doesn't want things to get so rough that the servants can't get to her mansion and you know, and bring her her shardonnay. So she is she's she's Uh, there are limitations on her crazy. Beck is the nicest teak Beck has ever said about me. Yeah, there are limitations on her crazy. There are no limitations on AOC's crazy. She would be willing to plunge the country into a massive economic depression if she believed that it served the

interests of social justice. That's really disconcerting. That's really challenging. Um, because she's also listened to by so many people I see sometimes they'll do these live streams and a clip up year in my feed because AOC will say something so crazy, and I'll see all these young people who are just you know, yeah, you're our champion and you're our future and everything, and I just, oh, my gosh. You know, I try not to be the guy who says, Look,

there are dumb Republicans, there are dumb Democrats. You know. There are smart people that I really disagree with and think are bad on policy, but I recognize that they're smart. And AOC I don't. I don't like to run around and just call people stupid. But she's she is very dumb. And she is also very powerful, and that's a that's a dangerous combination for somebody who is in government and has so much sway over the conversation, and she likes what Biden is doing. So let me all say, Biden

is dumb. Oh maybe as dumb as AOC. I mean, Briden's a pretty ignorant dumbass. But Biden is supposed to be more of a moderate. And yet AOC likes what she's seeing from this Biden administration so far. That should be a red flag friends, Plate twelve. Now, I'm feeling extraordinarily encouraged, and I think that the significance of President

Biden's executive orders communicates a lot. One is that it really communicates that he meant what he said on the campaign trail, that he would make climate change a central priority of his administration, and that he considers it not just a national security threat but frankly, you know, the global matter that it is. But it also really significant.

It also really signifies a good faith openness and relationship to those activist communities that you had mentioned, these grassroots communities and organizations on the ground, workers, etc. Scientists saying we are not going to be resistant to grassroots movements. But we are going to elaborate and work with grassroots movements all across the United States to make sure that we are creating as many jobs and as much justice

as possible as we fight to save our planet. Justice is the single most abused and misused word by the left. Don't ever forget it. But the fact that she is pleased so far with what the Biden administration is doing should let you know exactly where all of this is heading. The fact that she's so happy with what she's seeing is a reminder that, as I've been telling you, the presidency that we've seen so far with Joe Biden is not all that different from what you would see at

this stage from a president Bernie Sanders. Okay, there are may be a few things, but on the major issues on climate, actually, Bernie Sanders might be a little bit better than Biden. And I mean by better, I mean less insane on trade and immigration. Believe it or not, remember there was some crossover between Trump and Bernie on trade and immigration issues back in the day. So on that Biden is takes more of the elitist left position, Bernie has more of the populist worker position on immigration

and trade. So when you have aoc praising Biden's environmental policies, this is the woman behind. We need to get rid of cow farts and rebuild all the buildings and I mean all of them in America so that they're green friendly. Remember the Green New Deal, it was put out, her office put that out. This is the woman behind it, and she's pleased with what she's seeing so far. That should make you very very uneasy. It certainly does for me. We're going to be in for quite a ride here.

We need to pay very close attention to what they're actually doing and what their plans are going forward, because you know the media is going to be doing nothing but running for them. And you can see all all the wackiest loons out there in the climate change movement. This is their moment right now while people are downtrodden, need help, need checks, need the government to step in and assist. What we're seeing is that climate change stuff

is being rammed through simultaneously. So those of us who are on the one end, we're focused on what the government actions are. They're going to say, we need we need to get money into people's hands, we need to take these actions. But then they turn around and they say, oh, but we're gonna push all these climate executive orders. I mean, Jay Insley, this guy is honestly like monomaniacal about the issue of climate change. I mean, it's just a climate train,

you know. And he's talking about how we're going to have a clean energy revolution. Now play nine. This is a nation ready to take off in a clean energy revolution. This is perfect for the United States. This is teed up for us to do what we do best, which has developed jobs in new industries, and we are doing that today. Today, clean energy jobs in the reality is are growing three times faster than the nation's average. This is the place to create energy jobs. This is the

future and the present. Listen these The other side wants to shackle people to a past of an area of declining jobs. This is a reality. We do not want to to shackle our children to the deadweight of jobs that aren't going to exist thirty years from now. We want to give our kids the jobs that are growing. And this is the number one job creation engine is clean energy. And I couldn't be more tickle. Look, this

is the Hallelulujhan moment. From my view, we have, we've crossed the desert of denial and deception about climate change, and we have a president who understands how to create jobs and he's doing that big time today. This is all religious, Ferber and Jay Nsley is not a smart not a smart man. This is this is religious belief coming out here. They've crossed the desert of the denial

and all this stuff. If climate change was, what they say, the greatest engine for job growth, why does it require enormous government intervention, regulation and picking winners and losers even to get it going a little bit? What's what? Why does the government have to be involved at all? If this is so great and so efficient and so profitable, why do we have to have this ram down our throats by Joe Biden's pen? Why our executive orders even necessary?

And all this stuff? Oh, that's right, because they are just sort of like Robin Hood the app. They are rigging the game, and they're rigging the game for their green energy interests. You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm sorry, there's no evidence that anyone is going to leave this country

because of a two cent wealth tax. Can we just keep in mind right now in America, who's paying taxes? You know, the bottom ninety nine percent last year paid about seven and a half percent of their total wealth in taxes. That's what it pays. The top one tenth of one percent, you know how much they paid, they paid about three point two percent. If they added a two cent wealth tax, they'd still be paying less than most of the people in this entire nation. Look, someone

has to pay to keep this nation going. And right now, what the top one tenth of one percent, the wealthiest people in this country have said, is let's let everyone else pay for it, because what they want to do is not only keep their wealth, they want to keep building their wealth faster than anyone else. All I'm saying is because we have just a little fairness here. Oh har Elisabeth Warret's got an idea. I got an idea. Let's salve. Let's all just have a little old two

two percent, a two percent wealth wealth tax. Oh but I'm gonna call it two cents like it's it's gonna be twopennies coming out of your little little piggy bank. There you go, mister, mister Republican billionaires. Just take those take those little piggy banks and get you you turn them upside it. This is how we used to do it in Oklahoma. Turn them upside down. Take those pennies. You know, it's a it's a two percent wealth tax, which means it's supposed to be assessed against your entire

net wealth and net wealth. Friends, that's a real wealth tax, right, And that's what she said. She's that's what she says she's wanted in the past. But he's calling it a two cent tax. No, it's it's an assessment on everything you got. So if you're worth a hundred million, two million right off the top, liquid got to pay it on top of everything else. You're worth ten million, well, I don't know if it would count if your worth

ten million. That's not that much money these days, I know, crazy, right, but it's true. A lot of people run around worth ten million dollars. So and as for her fairness thing, please, I'm hoping to become one of them in many, many, many years, So you know, please keep listening to this radio show, and you know, maybe in fifty years we'll get there. The top one percent paid a greater share of individual income tax in twenty nineteen than the bottom

ninety percent combined. Okay, so the top one percent paid about thirty seven percent, the bottom ninety percent paid thirty percent. Half the country right now pays no income tax at all. Half of the United States. But the problem that we keep running into is that Republicans don't know where to draw the lines on this. Republicans also like to spend money too, as we see when they're in power, we

spent too much money. Now we're gonna call about or now we're gonna claim and we need fiscal responsibility and a lot of lives. A lot of Democrats are gonna say, uh, well, why exactly should that happen now when it wasn't happening under Trump? And that's gonna be a tough argument, a tough case for us to make. Let's just all be very clear on that. We're gonna make it, but we're not in a good position to do it. But I just think it's fascinating, Warren. There's this woman is there's

so much dishonesty in her. Whoa's gonna be a two percent? A two percent. Oh, let's call it two cents. Okay, two cent wealth tax. No, she's it's it's a wealth tax. Friends, and people do leave to avoid wealth taxes. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Join the conversation and message Buck on Facebook, Instagram, or email Team bucket iHeartMedia dot com. He may read it on the show. What do we

think about the populace revolts underway on Wall Street? And also what's going on with the continued siege of DC. We've got our friend Kurt Schlichter joining now. He is an attorney, a former member of the United States Army, and senior columnist at townhall dot com. Kurt, great to have you, Hey, great to be here watching them watching it all burn. Yeah, what do you think about that? It's amazing to me how weak the arguments from the

establishment and the elites have been against this. They keep acting like they keep backing, like they need to stop these these day traders from making a whole lot of money at the expense of hedge funds. People need to know that in the stock market there's two sides to every trade. So if you're doing really well, somebody else lost money. Well, look, here's the thing, and people are getting people are getting woke or red pilled, or you know,

seeing the matrix, whatever you want to call it. I thought that one of the great things about Donald Trump as he exposed the garbage establishment. But Joe Biden Asterisk is doing it a hundred times better. Because what we see, Buck, is every time we normal people attempt to use the rules, whether it's free speech or free enterprise, we're stopped. We're

told we can't do it, We're told it's illegitimate. You beat the Wall Street hedge fund guys at their own game, and let me tell you those those guys are all Democrat donors. You beat them at their own game. They stop the game. Yesterday they turned it off and made it impossible for people to continue to participate in the market. Now did they stop it for the big hedge fund guys, No, No,

they had ways of keeping it going. But if you were just a normal person who had finally found a way to get ahead, fair and square, you found yourself completely out. You've been excluded from the game. That's the thing, Buck, We're told this is you know, we're told, hey, you could do, you could be you can think whatever you want. But it's not true. There are limits, and the establishment is scared, and Joe Biden is an example of that.

This is an attempt to hold on to a tetering establishment, an establishment who has proven itself inept, corrupt, and incompetent and unbelievably arrogant about it at all. As if, as if they built any of the things that they now command, it's all fallen apart. This is a desperate attempt to keep it going. And this ham handed, you know, keeping two divisions of soldiers in Washington to tell is this a message that you know, at the end of the day,

we'll send the army after you. Well, we already know they're sending the FBI after meme guys, but only conservative meame guys. The liberal who did the exact same meme, except in favor of Hillary, she didn't get arrested by a bunch of FBI squad guys. So we're starting to see what's really happening, which is a dual track system. It's a rigged game. We're not allowed to play, and I think it's infuriating people across the spectra. It's just

as it righties, but it's lefties too. Kurt I have to say, I'm I'm somebody who takes a very cynical view of Democrats in power, like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. But they're they're willingness to pretend that there is an imminent threat of a Trump voter, you know, red maga hat violent coup in DC at any moment makes me think that these people are actually emotionally disturbed, like they've

got a problem, you know, I don't. I always have the question, are they stupid or do they think we're stupid? Or is it some combination of both, Because there's literally no normal person who looked at what happened on Capitol Hill, which is like two three hundred people, some of them dressed his vikings, who went in and they didn't hurt anybody except maybe this police officer, and we don't know. We still don't know about that. I'm not putting it

off the table. If they hurt a police officer, they need to be held accountable. But I want to see all the facts. I'm funny that way. The only person we know for sure who was killed as a result of this was an unowned person shot at close range by a police officer in a shooting that again. I won't make judgments until I see all the facts, but raises immediate questions. So the idea that there's some sort

of violent revolution we insurruction happening is so ridiculous. I think normal people are looking at it and just go, what the hell? This is crazy, This is stupid, Kurt. I also feel like we're seeing the the the panic at their recognition right now that that, even with all the Left has seized so much of the commanding heights of culture, business and politics. I mean, they this is the best position that the Left and the Democrat Party has been in since the financial crisis of two thousand

and eight. I think there's I think it's almost impossible to make, you know, a counterargument against that. I mean, they're in a spot right now. You're you're right, but you know, if there's a differs though, butt between being king of the mountain and king of the manure pile. What they've done is taken control of an establishment that's falling apart. Look at it everything. But so what I wanted to say, you know, the comma I was going for here was that they also feel a vulnerability in

those institutions because it's now all in the open. It's all clear. You know, the social media platforms. Okay, they can crush us now and they look like their monopolies and they're unassailable. That may not last. And we're gonna remember what they've done. Wall Street, yeah, sure, the big

hedge funds, they've had their way with people. I mean it's amazing to me apparently betting against I mean, picking at the bones of American companies like game Stop during a pandemic, when companies are hanging on for dear life, that somehow is like patriotic and fine, and within the system people see that, they see it for what it is. So so what I'm saying is, yes, they're in control of the system, but I think the cracks, the seams are being exposed in ways already that are making the

left really uneasy. Well, you're so right, because again they've they've taken over the Madua pile, not the mountain. Wall Street is falling apart and losing the support of the American people. Every other institution is too academia. The NFL look at its numbers. Two. Look, the thing is, these guys got arrogant and they thought you have no alternative, you're stuck with us, right, And I think to some extent Fox, which we've both been on, and we both

generally like I think they made that mistake too. Where else are these guys going to go? Well, they just left and then suddenly, you know, Tucker's getting you know, even Pucker's in competition. You know, you know you've got You've got Don Lemon winning his hour. I mean, that's that's bad. The thing is they you know, the problem with bluffing is that when people finally show their cards, maybe the krand isn't is quite as good as they thought.

You know, there are a lot of people who used to do nothing on Sunday afternoon but watch NFL games, and then NFL embraced disrespect for a country that maybe they fought for, maybe their brother died for, and they just said, Okay, I'm not gonna watch anymore. And if I was like, well, what else are you gonna do with your Sunday, Well they figured things out. I could take a walk with my kids, and suddenly their audiences down.

These institutions thought they were invulnerable. Social media thought, well, we'll just shut these guys up. And then people went to parlor. Well, we'll shut down parlor. Okay, we're at locals, we're on telegram. I get more people signing me into telegram groups. You know, people will move. They're not just gonna shrug. Oh okay, I give up. I guess because because because I can't talk about election fraud on Twitter, I'll just never talk about it again. It's not how

it works. This is an insurgency, a peaceful one, but it's an insurgency against an authority that's attempting to be a counterinsurgent. And as you well know because of your background, just like I do, one of the classic counterinsurgent mistakes is to over be provoked and overreacting, thereby alienating the masses so that they're more sympathetic to the insurgents and

less helpful to the counter insurgence. I also feel curt right now, like like the Democrat mindset, whether we're talking about big Tech, big Hollywood, big Wall Street, you name it, you know, corporations that are woke. I feel like their mindset is, is this almost impossible to almost impossible to really understand how this, how this can work together? Insecurity and hubris at the same time, Yes, they're very insecure,

and they're also very arrogant. We've never had and I keep saying, I went and spoke to a bunch of very rich Republicans yesterday and these people were cheering the game stock rebels and booing the Hedge fund guys. So, okay, this is this is woke. This is the Republican Party is now woke to it. I think everybody else is going to be because they're seeing what's happening, and they are, you know, the scales have fallen from their eyes and

they're seeing the truth of it. And the Democrats are insecure because they know they know that they're at risk. That's why they're over reacting so much. That look, it's not you're not operating from a position of springs when you have to attempt to suspect suppress speech. You know, we conservatives, we don't suppress speech, and and we never talk about doing They're wanting to do it because we're

confident in our ideas. They're not. They have to enforce conformity. This, this, this repression by the establishment is as proof positive that they are terrified and this reaction of theirs will only make it worse as more and more people come over to the side of freedom. Speaking of Kurt Schlichter, he's a senior columnist at townhall dot com. Uh, you're a lieutenant colonel in the army, full colonel, full apart in

full bird. Excuse me, sir, full colonel in the army. Yeah, that and a dollar gets you the dollar and uh and and also a lawyer, an attorney. I want to ask on on that side of things for a second, Kurt, do you think there's class action material here for what? You know? No one's ever thought before that a trading app would essentially decide who's gonna win and who's gonna lose because of because their buddies are on another side

of a trade. You know, we're starting to get into this thing where private companies are are not operating under under the promises that they make. I mean it, you know, as as I said before, if you if you bought, if you bought you know, a if you bought a new vacuum cleaner on Amazon and they and they said, no, we're actually going to send you a mop because we think that's what you need. That wouldn't be okay. So

why is it okay? Stopping from trading. Well. Look, the first class action lawsuit was filed yesterday in one of the district courts of New York. Okay, it's done. The beautiful thing. Look, sometimes attorneys used their power for good instead of evil. We can't trust the SEC. We can't trust it. Janet Yelling got eight hundred thousand dollars from Citadel,

which is associated with Robin Hood for a speaking gig. Okay, yeah, because because because she's worth eight hundred thousand dollars, right, and to expect her in the SEC and the whole Biden administration who is getting donations from these hedge fund guys to go and enforce the law, and they enforce it against they. They may actually go after the Wall Street rebels, but they will never go after the hedge

fund guys. Private attorneys can do that stuff. Private attorneys can bring their own cases and maybe they'll get thrown out of court. But you know, twenty five percent of the courts are Trump appointees. And maybe we'll get a fair hearing and something. Maybe we'll even get a fair hearing and from some Obama judge. I've been in front of very good Obama judges in the ninth circuit. The thing is, see a lot of the left is sees

things the way we now see them. And the problem is the reason we can't get together to some extent where where we do overlap is you know, this kind of false consciousness of wonkeness. Remember how they used to always tell us buck, oh, you Republicans, you're voting against your own interests because your brainwashed through Christianity and patriotism.

Well that wasn't true. But what is true is this wokeness stuff is used to divide people from their real economic interest and their real liberty interest by getting focused on nonsense. And I think that's breaking down. You saw Donald Trump reached across and ed Brownian Republicans who don't look like Nick Romney, you know, the senator from Miracle went of all types. Real diverton, not bogus diversion. I'm box checking diversity, but diversity of backgrounds uniting against common

ideology of freedom and liberty. And that's the antidote to wokeness. If you get people past this insane wokeness stuff, you realize we and so have people we think are our opponents. We don't agree on everything, maybe not even most things, but there are a few things we can agree on, and we got to get past this nonsense that distracts us divided. It's easy for the establishment to deal with us when we come together understanding common interests. Then they

got again. Then they're gonna be really scared. Kurch lickor everybody follow him on social media, look for his columns at townhall dot com. Colonel Kurt always appreciate it, my man, Talk to you soon. Thanks, Buck. This is the Buck Sexton Show Podcast. Follow Buck on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Inside the Beltway of Washington, d C. The Establishment has concentrated their power and now they want to be able

to reconstitute the Republican Party in their image. My theory of the case, Tucker, is that if we only fight the neo cons in Washington, d C. Then they're on their home turf. So I think we need to go out into the country. We need to inspire a positive populism, and we need to stand against these America Last politicians who are a lot like Congress as a whole, owned by foreign interests abroad, special interests home, and then at

times deeply unpopular. I saw a pull that came out yesterday that had Liz Cheney at ten percent approval rating with Republicans in her own state. Now, by contrast, Momrgatafi had a thirteen percent approval rating in his final days. And so it's a bit ironic that Liz Cheney is less popular among Republicans than the Arab dictators that she wants to throw out of office. Matt Gates pulling a lot together there. I gotta say, yeah, I don't know

what Liz Cheney thinks she's doing. Well, actually I do know what she thinks she's doing, but it's not smart. It's gonna be some Republicans who are going to have a tough primary challenge waiting for them in about a year's time. That's gonna happen, and it should happen. It's the market of politics speaking. Let the market of politics speak. But there are going to be a whole bunch of folks who are in for a rude awakening here. The establishment wants to come back into the in the GOP

in this leadership role. They want to They want us to go back to invading foreign predominantly Muslim countries, and they want us to, you know, do the the big spending in big government era stuff of the Bush administration, and they want us to lose gracefully to the left constantly on all cultural and social issues, and just keep taking all the abuse from the media. And they don't

understand the GOP base. The conservative base in this country has been red pilled post Kavanaugh, post Trump, we see more. We're seeing more even right now with the game Stop Wall Street revolt. We see what's rigged. We see how the other side cheats and how they want to control us. We see what the lockdowns have done. And this is not going away just because some people want a Republican

country club atmosphere. You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. New York severely undercounted coronavirus deaths in nursing homes, according to a report that the New York State Attorney General, Leticia James is pointing to. Now she's got the New York State Attorney

General investigation concluding that Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration. According to New York Times, you're undercounted coronavirus related deaths at nursing homes by as much as fifty percent. That's not a small mishapp that's not a little change in the numbers. This is major and it's worth understanding exactly how we got here and how this is a question of being untruthful. This isn't just oh, a mistake, this was deception. There are reasons that this happened. I want to have tip.

Tom Elliott over at Gravy and Media pulled together a number of clips that I want to use for you of what Cuomo has said in October he claimed that these were not his fault, all right. He said that the deaths were the result of nursing home staff. That's right, it was nursing home staff that brought people that brought the virus into the nursing homes. Or would you delegate

it to fifty states? But their criticism was, well, people in nursing homes died, Yes, people in nursing homes died, and they attacked me and all the other Democratic governors with that. We know that this virus attacks the old and the week we introduced were introduced to the virus in Seattle, Washington when it attacked in a nursing home. And yes, a large number of seniors in nursing homes

passed away in New York State. When you look at the percentage of deaths in nursing home, we're forty six out of fifty states, forty six out of fifty states, So by percentage, our loss was much much less than other states. We've done a full study of it. The virus came into nursing homes from the staff. This is before we knew there was asymptomatic spread, before we had the testing capacity. But we always had additional beds for

COVID positive people. We had emergency hospital beds, additional hospital capacity. We never forced any nursing home to take them, because that's just not true. I mean, he can keep saying this, he can keep claiming this, but it's not true. He even says that he never signed an executive order instructing nursing homes to accept patients. All right, he did that in the past. He blamed the Trump administration. Here you

go war stuff March. Absolutely, there were the idea that the hospitals were going to be full was a real one. You wanted to free up beds. But to Jonathan's question, now, and you do a lot of reflecting in this book, and you admit to some mistakes. Maybe we should have done masking sooner, Maybe we should have shut things down earlier. That's all early March fog of war stuff, and we get that. But with the benefit of hindsight, would you not have issued that March twenty fifth directive to send

COVID positive patients back to nursing homes? And will you do it again if this comes up? Yeah, Willie, I hate to get technical with you, but sometimes these seeing things are technical. There was never a directive that said we will send COVID positive people back to nursing homes. The directive, which was modeled on the federal directive, said you cannot discriminate, but the state law clearly says a nursing home can't accept the person unless they can treat them.

Having said that, would my health department have followed the federal guidance obviously not knowing the political issue. It would notice the way he talks circles here, nothing happened. No, we didn't do the thing. I mean, some people did the thing, but we didn't do the thing. But if we had the other thing, it was because other people did the thing, not because my people did the thing doesn't make any sense. He's going in circles. Did this happen or not? That was a Willie Geist on NBC

asking real questions back in October. Surprise, surprise, here he is again nursing home issue and pushed off responsibility to other people. What do you say to those families who believe that the death of their loved one was preventable. One of the things I find reprehensible about it, Willie, is they the president did create that impression, which is cruel. It's cruel. It's cruel to say that the families who lost people in nursing homes, well, this could have been

prevented by a different government policy. It makes their pain worse. Be clear, the Democrats have been saying that Trump is the reason for hundreds of thousands of COVID debts, including Cuomo. Cuomo blames the federal government. He'll say people died because of bad government, but only other people's bad government. I mean, after that interview a couple of weeks later, he said it was a conspiracy that the Department of Justice under

Trump came up with. But in May it was going back to May, here's what he said to Savannah Guthrie on NBC about the nursing homes who had a directive that nursing homes could not turn away those who had COVID, which exposed a vulnerable population. You have fifty eight hundred people die in senior homes in this state in retrospect? Was that order a mistake? I know that guidance has since been changed. Now we followed federal guidance on the

nursing homes. So what we did here in New York is nothing different than what the federal government put out his guidance for every state. Yes, people died, Savannah. No, Look if you look at how many people died in nursing homes in New York compared to other states, we actually have a lower percentage of people who died in nursing homes, but we had more people died than any other state. That's a fact. The reason that happened was because we had the virus coming from Europe when the

federal government told us the virus was coming from China. Oh, that's why it happened. Notice he deflects, he bobs and waves him, and you got to give the guy credit. He's shameless he's morally grotesque, but he is quite good at evading accountability. It's the governor of New York State, folks, here he is. At one point, they were talking about how he would be a great stand in for Democrat president instead of instead of the Biden Biden Care campaign.

Remember that. But back in June, here's what he was saying about his nursing home. I wanted to just give you this is the way this guy has changed his story over and over and over again. He is a sociopathic liar. Yeah, look, there's I've taken political heat. Okay, there are facts in this politics. There's no doubt. In nursing homes all across this nation, that's where we saw most of the deaths, not most, but almost fifty percent

of the death senior citizens in congregate settings. And it's becoming more and more clear that the infection in the nursing homes came from the staff that got infected and brought it in. But in New York when number forty six in the nation in terms of percentage of deaths at nursing homes compared to the total percentage. So I just want understand he is saying this, Do you notice he used that that same statistic forty six forty six forties,

they undercounted nursing home death by fifty percent. You understand that, right. So this whole time he's been hanging on this statistic, he's been lying about the fact that he put out an executive order. Why would you put out an executive order if you're just doing what everybody else is doing. Every other state did not do this. But he keeps going back to this number, this statistic. Oh, we're at

you know, we're at forty six or whatever it is. Right, that's because they hid fifty percent of the nursing home deaths. Because if you were in a nursing home and you were sick, but you died in a hospital, that didn't count as a nursing home death. Ah, that's what this report shows. So his whole defense here about oh, it wasn't me, it was somebody else. Willly did what we were told, and oh, by the way, we actually did

a really good job. Bull This guy is a maniac when it comes to this, But he knows that his political future hangs in the balance because thousands and thousands of seniors dying because of a bone headed decision by a governor that can actually cost you your privileged political perch, Cuomo, that can actually be a problem for you. If only there could be a reckoning among Democrats in this state.

Can we can we please just not have the stupid, evil and thuggish Democrat variety in charge of the state. Could we have somebody who's just not quite as awful? And there's so many other options. I would take over this guy. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Join the conversation and message Buck on Facebook, Instagram, or email Team bucket iHeartMedia dot com if he may read it

on the show. Two sources tell CNN that some warned him against this, with one source telling us he was told this would make it look like he was quote crawling back to Trump unquote, also that it would further isolate him from mainstream donors who want to move away from the disgrace former president. Now keeping him honest doesn't seem like that is a big concern anymore for Congressman McCarthy or the party. It's who they are, It's who

they believe their constituents are. After all, he in one hundred and thirty eight other Republican House members voted to overturn the election even after they were attacked, and all but five Senate Republicans have signaled they will not vote to convict the ex president for what he did, because this is still the ex president's party belongs to him, to the insurrectionists who supported him, to those beyond even that fringe Anderson Cooper trust fund, trust fund baby and

ultra elitist. Wants to be very clear with all of you that if you voted for Trump, you are one of the insurrectionists. If you voted for Trump, you're somebody who should be punished, should suffer. There should be consequences for your actions. Not allowed to have voted for Trump, you see, not if you think you should be invited to polite society and fancy cocktail parties. No, no, no, or just be allowed to have your job or be

allowed to talk on social media. They're still pretending that Donald Trump caused the riot that happened on Capitol Hill, the insurrection, as they say. He's still saying that that that's central to the narrative of why Donald Trump needs to be convicted, right, that's all. It's all his fault, that this was an insurrection which means an attempt to overthrow the United States government. It was an attempt to

interfere temporarily in a government process. It stopped the Congress from holding its vote for a couple of hours, a few hours, But there was no serious effort to overthrow the government and hold the power of the government in the hands of these individuals. Right, Let's let's speak about this honestly. But of course that's not something they're willing

to do. And if you're looking for dishonesty around all this, you would have a hard time finding somebody better at that than Nancy Pelosi, who is insisting that Trump must be Remember she led she led a sham impeach of Trump a year ago. It's only been one year, isn't that amazing? Nancy Pelosi wanted to impeach Donald Trump over a phone call that we now know more than ever was not illegal, was not illicit, and should certainly never

been the basis for an impeachment proceeding. There was no power abused, and what Trump was asking about wasn't even wrong to ask on that phone call with the Prime Minister of Ukraine. But they tried, They took their one shot, and now they're taking another one. And here's Pelosi Maya, how to use you a pitch data trap? I hate, I hate data trap. Play six. No one is above the law, not even a president of the United States.

And Trump must be tried and convicted to ensure that no future president will ever think it's okay to incite insurrection, to stop the ascertainment of who the next president of the United States will be by falsely inflaming people falsely about the outcome of the election. Bring a charge against him, Pelosi, you got, you got the Biden DJ bring it. Let's see what you got. She's speaking about this as a criminal matter, so let's see her bring a criminal charge

against this former president. I should say, sorry, that's going to keep happening for a while. Here. Donald Trump's just a private citizen. Now he does have Secret Service protection, but just a private citizen. So why not let's see what you got. Take him to court, show us the evidence. This is all observed, though, as we know, they're upset, though.

They have to keep this narrative going because they recognize that Trump will still have a lot of influence and a lot of authority, a lot of power in politics, even if he doesn't actually have official government power. They're very much aware of that here Senator Van Holland talking

about a play eleven. This is a big, big problem that you have the leader of the House Republican Party refusing to confront members who now are on record having openly called for violent actions, including directly against the Speaker of the House. I wish we saw Republicans deciding to turn the page and put this really awful era of Donald Trump behind them, But instead they seem to be still captured by the by Donald Trump. Captured by Donald Trump?

Oh no, what will we ever do? So terrifying, isn't it the guy who ran a successful presidency. Look the post election period, you know that I've had my criticisms of it with this with the former president, But the actual three years prepen dmic of Trump were great. We had three great years, and then we got hit with the pandemic. That's what ended up happening. They can sit around to pretend that there was fascism and pretend that it was the worst thing to ever happen, but we

all know it's not true. One of the reasons they hate Trump so much is that he refused to apologize for the hurt feelings of the left. And he was also far more successful as president than they ever allowed the American people to think until we saw it with our own eyes. And that's why they have to go after him, right. They have to ruin the legacy of Trump entirely because here's what could end up happening. Here's my theory. What if Trump says, you know what, he's

now in Florida's in mar Lago. He's got his family around him, He's got all these donors. He says, guys, you know who is you know who's going to take up the torch of Maga now, Ronda Santis, the governor of Florida. Think about what that could do. Think about the record that descent is already has to run on right now, and all the numbers people fleeing their states,

Blue states in particular, to move to Florida. Right the market of your fellow American citizens is speaking right now by people moving with their feet, you know, they're voting with their feet. And that's where I think they also recognize they need to take take this Trump power center and crush it. It's also about revenge, of course. Senator Barasso sees this play ten. So there's plenty of accountability. There's this president is the only president in the history

of the nation to be impeached twice. Now that's going to be in the history books forever. But in terms of what Senator Kane is proposing, Chuck Schumer, Senator Kay said, let's do this instead of a trial. Senator Schumer, the majority leader, has said we're going to trial. That's what's going to happen in the United States Senate saying that is even higher priority than focusing on getting people back to work, getting kids back to school, getting relief out there.

They're saying it's a higher priority than allowing President Biden to put his cabinet in place. This is the Democrat priority. This is a partisan crusade. It is revenge, it's vindictive. And my prediction is that President Trump will not be found guilty when the final vote is taken, he will not be Thankfully, he will not be. One more note

for you want to talk about a rigged system. I meant to mention this before you know the FBI lawyer who falsified evidence against Trump campaign aide Carter Page, lied about evidence. You know how much jail time he was given to day. Kevin Kleine Smith no jail time, zero, not a day. The system is rigged. We need to see that at understand it, and start unrigging it. You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or wherever

you get your podcasts. Rock and roll Fellow Patriots, it's time for Roll Call. Producer Mark Buddy, old pal, What do you got tell the folks this weekend? What are you up to? What's the latest and greatest in mark world? Basically, for the next few months, it'll be looking at houses and other stuff associated with BAT. I'll get a break

next weekend for the Super Bowl. But other than that, oh, the Super Bowls next weekend, yes, not this upcoming weekend, the weekend after this, right right right, and it's the Buccaneers and the Chiefs Chiefs right, Okay, See I remember that one. M I think I gotta I think I gotta root for the for the Buccaneers. I think I gotta. I think that Tom Brady. It's just it's just too amazing to watch this guy do his thing. I can't believe it. I think I'm gonna be rooting for Tom

Brady in a Super Bowl, I know. But Pat Mahomes is just so good. He's so good, and he's so great, but he's got you know, he's gonna be the Dons. He's the man, right, He's be the Domina player for so long. But this is Fascto's actually be a really well watched super Bowl. I'm sure people are gonna be Oh yeah, the ratings are gonna be huge. Who's the Who's the halftime show of the weekend? I don't know what that is? Well though it is the weekend. Yeah, And as an artist called the weekend, I'm I am

cool producer Mark, so I know these things. I mean, I'm joking. I have heard of him, but he's right. But I just like this. This is the first time in a long time I feel like I've actually known one of these things. So I just like to assert that I'm a hip character who knows all the funky beats. And there you go. If I would have said something more like Atlantis Morris Set, you would have understood more. Though It's like rain on your wedding day, Mark, you

know that? All right? My weekend's gonna be reading, sleeping, napping, and trying to steal to Lula back from my parents at some point because I haven't had her in a week and I'm getting sad on the inside. Do you just go take her sometimes? No, like I have to ask, But they like when I take her sometimes because I take care of her and then it's a nice break. But now I don't know they've they haven't given her back to me, so I might you know, I might have to get my own I might have to get

my own dog. You know, that's like mine one hundred percent of the time. This is where we're heading. So my little brother just got a a Cavalier miniature poodle mix, a cavapoo, and it's adorable. And uh, does your does the missus have allergy? Yours? Is that right? She does not know? She? Oh, she does not, Okay, because because my brother's fiance does. And so the cavapoo mix, you're good.

You don't have to worry. They don't have a you know, they don't have the dander or whatever it is that causes I am interested in the dog that doesn't shed very much like that appeals to me. Yeah, Oh, you guys should look at a cavapoo. They're great. Apparently it's very hard to get pure red puppies right now because everybody is trying to get puppies. Everybody wants dogs right now. Yeah, I mean, they've been such a joy for me. It's

such a joy during the lockdown. Really, one of the only sort of happy moments you know of of of the pandemic have been, you know, either with my significant other or with the dog. That's really it. And with families sometimes. But even my family, I gotta be careful because I got some older, older relatives and you know, with the whole COVID thing, so that's a little bit stressful. Anyway. Yeah,

the dog, the dogs are great. So we've got producer Mark chilling this weekend next week in Super Bowl, good things all around. Have you tried the show yet that I recommended for you and missus Mark the Boys? No, I have not. I'm sorry. She keeps willing to watch other stuff. Producer Mark, Will you tell her that Buck is getting a little sad on the inside that she's got She's gotta trust me, She's got to give it like thirty minutes, you know, I think she's gonna be

into it. I know if I were her, I'd be skeptical of me too. God, you know, to give it what you tell her, Yeah, let's be fair. But she's got to try this one, all right. You know she may be skeptical of my taste, but this time around, I'm telling and you guys will both be really into it. I will say it is. This is one warning. It is so intentionally, like grossly violent in places on purpose, that it actually is meant to be almost humorous, if that makes sense. Like it's so gross and violent in

some places, it's not like it's hard to explain. It's not like mean violence. It's just like you gotta see it to see what I mean. Like you'll just go, oh my god, I can't believe they just did that in this show. And they're doing it intentionally. They kind of do it intentionally to push your buttons. But some of the craziest There is a new HBO Max movie coming out this weekend. Then I'll be watching That's what is it. It's called The Little Things and it's got

Denzel Washington, Jared Leto and Rammi Malick. What is your favorite Denzel Washington movie? Oh, oh my god, the name of it is slipping the football. I want to remember the Titans. Oh my god, I can't believe I always forgot about that. Yeah, that's his best I mean, probably not his best movie, but my favorite. It's one of the best sports movies of all time. I would say that my favorite. I think the best Denzel Washington movie of all time is probably but he's not the lead.

He's a leading character. Is Glory. That's one of the best,

if not the best, Denzel Washington movie. But he's so good in Training Day and so good An American Gangster that it's it's hard to pick between in terms of individual performance those two movies, both of which, by the way, if you have not seen you're listening, you want a movie to check out this weekend, Training Day American Obviously Glory, but I think this audience, I guess ninety percent of them I've seen Glory, But Training Day in American Gangster

are both really good for what they are. Basically, all you have to is tell me that Denzel Washington stars in a movie, I'm probably gonna watch it. He's not many bad ones. He's one of my I would say he's one of my ten favorite actors and may even be top five, may even be top five. So yeah, I'm looking at his filmography right now. I can't name him a bad one, at least the ones I've seen he's in. He's in very, very good stuff. I agree. All right, let's get to uh some of the producer.

Mark is gonna watch The Boys at some point and he'll give us his review even if my wife doesn't want to. I will watch it myself. I promise it. There we definitely appeals to me. There we go. Did you wait? Does she think that it won't be good or does she just have other things that she thinks are better? He's other things that she prefers to watch.

And if I tell her that it's all gory and stuff like, she still won't watch The Joker, which was like one of the better movies of last year, because she thought it would be too scar Yeah, you're gonna have to watch this one solo. Yeah, exactly. There are scenes in this in that show that you and I are gonna want to talk about on air. Well, we will start nervously laughing as we talk about it because it's so messed up that you'll just be like, I

can't believe I saw that. That's pretty crazy. It doesn't seem like something I should show my wife. Yeah, i'd say, go solo on it. Go solo on it when you got a minute, all right, Yeah, exactly, David, Hey buck, I just saw the first political ad on TV for a new governatorial candidate in Virginia. Pete Snyder. Seems like a nice fellow, but it's the same garbage Republicans have

been feeding us forever. It's a bunch of SloMo clips of him looking casual, talking to business owners and looking concerned. There's an inspirational voice over telling us how great he is. It's the same thing every election cycle, and we keep getting our butts handed to us. The Commonwealth is officially blue, and apparently there's no plan to turn it around. Take care of Keep up the good work, David. Yeah, Virginia's blue, man. They flipped it blue, and Georgia is looking like it's

blue now. You know, Ohio and Florida are now pretty solidly read, thank god. But we've lost Virginia. We've lost Georgia, and that's that's a problem for us. That's a problem. Um, we gotta we gotta figure out. You know, Yes, I like that that that Florida is becoming the Republican stronghold. Uh, you know, Texas. I don't know why Texas couldn't have

better leadership during this pandemic. You know, I don't know why Governor Abbott couldn't pull it together more here, you know, he got a little I don't know, he fell off, fell off track here a bit wasn't good. Um, Texas should have been the beacon of freedom during lockdowns, and they got they got fou cheat, they got fou cheat, they got fou cheat up. That's what happened. So not good,

not good. But Florida still the bright spot, I know, the sunshine state, if you will, place where you can get great weather and delicious oranges and you can wear flip flumps pretty much everywhere, and it's fashionable. Did you know that producer More, we're flip flumps anywhere in Florida. I mean maybe not the church, but like, you wear

fliplops pretty much anywhere else, do you? I don't think flip flops are fashionable anywhere but the beach or like a shower, I guess if you're in a communal shower. M I think I think it depends. But you do see a lot of flip flops going on and uh and also cargo cargo shorts, no one, Florida Florida fashion cargo shorts, no problem, no problem. So you're saying the fashion of Florida is perfect for buck. Oh yeah, oh yeah, pajama pants. I want to walk around with pajama pants

in Florida. Looks like I'm wearing like beach pants. You know what I mean. I'm just being a cool guy. I feel like the Florida fashion is perfect for you. Yeah, Or you want to dress like an eighties dad? Correct? Yes, yes, cargo pants too, even you have struck the bulls eye. Yes, I just I want to be a comfortable I want to be a comfortable like late nineteen eighties dad. So there we go. I might even wear do you remember

birken Stocks. Oh, don't be a birken Stock go all in though, To go all in, you have to wear burken stocks with socks. A vegan too. No, See that's some that's some like hippie nonsense. If you ever watched The Big Lebowski you would know you can watch You can wear burken stocks with socks and still be a meat eating sarcastic fellow. Um, but actually the big Lebowski's kind of a hippie. I just sort of I just boxed myself into further Yeah, all right, well whatever, Randy,

Good morning Buck. I just finished listening to one of your podcasts from yesterday thoroughly enjoyed it. During the show, I perked up when you referred to AOC as a dangerous imbecile, which caught me thinking about the old Soviet term, which may be equally applicable to her to her function within the Socialist Democrat Party useful idiot. She fulfills an immediate need and will be quickly discarded when her usefulness

is finished. She won't rise in the party length of party ranks because she is severely lacking in intellect and her critical thinking is not distant. My mother's dog displays more cunning. Wendy, I, first of all, thank you so much for listening to the show. I don't know if she won't rise in the party ranks, though I think you're Joe. Let's let's be cleared, Wendy, Joe Biden is president.

No joke, Wendy. You know I'm sit here. Ryan the chew chew go to DC, and I'm a bringing together a country by reading speeches, the very practice kind of yelling thing. But then I'm gonna go back down to being Grandpa America's grandpa right here from Delaware, blue collar Joe. So if that guy can become president, AOC can become president. I think we need to be real about that. I really do. I think I think we need to be

honest about it. Mike Hey, bucking Mark. All of the censorship since the election reminds me of the first rule in the movie Fight Club. The first rule of censorship is nobody's allowed to talk about censorship. The left's momentum and censoring conservatives seems to be gaining more momentum each day. I feel like we are in a tug of war for freedom, but those on the left are the only ones who are allowed to pull the rope. Keep up the great work and all you do fight back shields.

I well, Mike, thank you, I see what you're saying. I mean, the left, look, they've they've seized control of a lot of institutions. They are ascendant right now. They feel very powerful, very full of themselves, and we have not yet come up with a strong mechanism of pushback. We are the right does not have its counter revolution.

It doesn't We don't have our mobilization in play right now against this left wing suppression, against this left wing takeover that is still underway that we're still suffering from right now. That is going to change, though. We are going to come up with our rallying cry, our means of of an of ideas, of an overarching idea, with all these other policies, but you know, put into it that are the alternative to what we are seeing from these democrats. It will happen. We just we have to

be patient, We have to hold the line. We have to understand what we are up against here. But it's it's coming. Remember seventy five million people, You're not alone, friends. You have to keep this in mind. Seventy five million people voted for Donald Trump, seventy five million in this country, and nobody thinks that any of those votes really were fraudulent. I'm just going to say that. So seventy five million

votes for Trump. Yes, Joe Biden is currently president the United States, doesn't mean that there isn't a conservative renaissance in waiting right now. And I know that might sound like happy talk. I know this may sound like I'm being too optimistic or whatever. I fully understand the challenges

we face. I fully grasp what it means for you, your family, for your children, well in some cases not in school because the lockdowns, but for your children's schooling, for your professional future, for your future as an American, as a citizen. I know all of the pitfalls and what the stakes are right now. But I'm also I'm telling you the Democrats got where they got into this position through deception, and that deception is going to come with a price. And the price is something that we're

still putting in place. How we exact that price, but it will happen. Keep the faith, hold the line. This is the Buck Sexton Show Podcast. Join the conversation and message Buck on Facebook, Instagram, or email Team Bucket iHeartMedia dot com. He may read it on the show. Brad next up here, We've talked for a long time about how the schools are broken and they are indoctrination camps for our kids. Come to the point now where they're holding our kids hostage. They're actually begging us to find

another option. Is it possible you can work with the team to help us all figure out what the options, what the other options are. Maybe that will be our conservative movement where we can all make efforts to do shields. Hie. Well, Brad, it's a great idea, you know. Maybe we can bring somebody on who has expertise in how to start if you, let's say, wanted to homeschool. Given all the resources now online, everything people have, I think that there should and I'm

sure that's exists. Let me let me be clear, I don't have kids yet. I don't know about this stuff really, so we'd have to bring somebody on who has an expertise in this. I don't have it. But I think if everyone listening to the show across the country knew where to go, what are the resources, what are the pathways? If you wanted to homeschool, how do you do it? Because from what I hear, it's homeschooling is I shouldn't say easier than ever, but there's more to help you

do it and do it well. And there people form these groups so the kids also can go out and play sports and socialize. But a lot of the instruction is done at home and there's all this online. But I'm not speaking from a place of deep knowledge. So I need to find out more. But Brad, I'll look into that because I would like to help with that.

I would like to get us to a point where we can do a segment where people know if they listen to that segment on this show, Hey, if you want to start homecoling homeschooling your kids now or in September, you know how to get to how to get to step one and make it the best possible program for your kid. Steve, it looks like the game plan is

to wipe out everything Trump did, no matter what. Obviously, Biden is so out of touch that he canceled Keystone Excel without asking what would be the fallout with the loss of jobs or to hit the hit to the economy.

The political cancel culture is out of control. To hell with the consequences that this was ancient Egypt, this new Biden regime would be chiseling Trump's name off the temple walls, or Steve and the Soviet Union using razor blades to actually remove in documents the names of people that have been eliminated. That's what they used to do in the

Soviet era. Thanks so much everybody for joining have a great weekend, honored to have been with you, and next week will be in this fight once again together, Shields high